Laurence Mesirow
What Causes Mass Killings
Sometimes I feel compelled to retread over topics I have previously discussed, because of the new appearance of events that, in some ways, exemplify quite well these themes from the past. In particular, I...
How Sustained Monogamous Intimacy Keeps Much Of The Human Race Afloat
Sustained fidelity between two people seems to be becoming increasingly unpopular today. First of all, when people choose to live together today rather than get married, they are putting themselves in a position to...
The Diminishing Quality Of Research Papers In The United States
There is a growing concern about the quality of research papers being produced today in the United States. In particular, these papers are not very disruptive to the accepted ideas with regard to the...
Why Democrats Need To Destroy The Good People On Their Team
Why do people feel a need to ruin a satisfactory situation? In today’s modern technological society, when a situation leads to too much contentment, that contentment does not lead to the peace that comes...
Ideological Purity As A Vehicle To Start Feeling Alive
There is a growing concern about the quality of research papers being produced today in the United States. In particular, these papers are not very disruptive to the accepted ideas with regard to the...
When Morality Becomes A Straitjacket
In many ways, the world seems to be crumbling apart today. I’m not just talking about the physical problems occurring to our planet as a result of climate change. I’m also talking about the...
How Covid Has Sexualized Modern Technological Society
Since the rise of the Covid pandemic, there has also been a rise in the appearance of many other conditions and diseases that affect human beings. One that has seldom appeared in the...
Climate Change And The Painful Experiences It Inflicts
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference is over. There is some good news from it and some not so good news. The good news is that the wealthy countries have agreed to give...
Trumpism And The Midterm Elections
The results of the midterm elections in the United States are mostly in, although one senate race has yet to be decided. However, the Democrats are happy because, although they lost the House of...
The Role Of Nostalgia And Hope In Sustaining Us And Keeping Us Alive
In my previous article, one of my focuses was on the difficulty of measuring the value of old social phenomena for human life against new social phenomena, assuming our vantage point was not so...